I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed. I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)

I genuinely wonder sometimes if people around Trump are showing him fake, AI-generated video or something.

Please make this sound bit ubiquitous during midterms.

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

*very* striking to me that trump's two big losses at SCOUTS--first the fed, now tariffs--are both about core macroeconomic institutions, namely free trade and an independent central bank. "go nuts on culture, go nuts on immigration, but DO NOT TOUCH the neoliberal consensus"

They're having trouble getting jurors in one of the cases against Elon Musk because "so many people hate him so much" www.law360.com/articles/244...

The tech oligarchs pushing AI do not care if you can afford a computer, because they do not truly love the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd...

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…

A Kickstarter for an ESP-32 based version of this with a circular e-ink display would probably be huge.

See also: his portrayal of serial killer John Lee Roche in the seminal X Files episode “Paper Hearts.” RIP! youtu.be/KLgevu60Sks?...

Looking forward to the first Scream sequel made after the release of Apple’s AI call screening feature.

As someone who works for a hardware company, this is…not ideal!

I’ve mentioned them before, but I find myself referencing Melanie Mitchell’s posts about LLMs and “world models” a lot lately in debates about what LLMs can be said to “know” and how accurate the “stochastic parrot” and “spicy autocomplete” criticisms are. aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...

Hollywood is COOKED I made this $50,000,000 movie for free using AI

My god this is truly a singularity…of awfulness.

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

They’re washing their asses on his and hers bidets while building a gulag and filming authoritarian porno videos using prisoners as props. This is Salò levels of Fascist perversion

Make sure your branches are continvoucly morged

If we're lucky, someday we'll be able to look back and see that so much of what is wrong in the film (or any) industry right now is the narcissism of a gerontocracy who are old and incurious, but also delusional enough to still think they are the *least* old and incurious living generation.

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

Is this Hustlebro propaganda, or are people seriously living like this?

A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.

A conclusion that should be obvious to anyone who understands how these things work.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

it's amazing that people are willing to trust their money with Musk, a man who fails at everything and is also a Nazi.

If we're posting rare Worfs, then we need to address the fact that the final episode of "Webster" was a clip show co-starring Worf, and because all live-action Trek is considered alpha canon, that means this whole episode is part of Starfleet history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-nY0...

I've been thinking a lot lately about how communities in the Antebellum North organized to protect Black Americans from kidnapping enslavers, and also how witnessing (and resisting) such kidnappings slowly radicalized a critical mass of white Northerners against slavery www.salon.com/2017/08/05/w...

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Déja-vu — this was the same thing Trump did at the start of his first administration. Immediately after his first inauguration, his White House team literally *threw away* all the many volumes of pandemic-preparedness measures developed by the Obama Administration. That’s why COVID kicked our ass.

WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side. Will DHS retract the prior claims?

Zuckerberg isn’t an inventor. He’s not an original thinker. All his ideas were iterative and the rest he bought after they became popular. If he has an idea and it doesn’t already exist, bet against it.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

I recently learned about George Washington’s “Letter To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island,” and, wow, it’s quite the unequivocal endorsement of pluralism and religious liberty. founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE. On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE. www.wired.com/story/palant...

"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

*my biggest and most exhausted sigh* "As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

“Cause why would Xi Jinping wanna terminate all my ice hockey and permanently eliminate my Stanley Cup?”

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